1 00:00:17,000 --> 00:00:19,360 A long, long time ago... 2 00:00:19,520 --> 00:00:22,360 As long as no one remembers... 3 00:00:22,520 --> 00:00:25,400 ... a king lived here in the castle. 4 00:00:25,560 --> 00:00:29,360 And his daughter, the lovely Princess Miamaja. 5 00:00:30,520 --> 00:00:35,960 Although it was a fairy king, they were not fairy rich. 6 00:00:37,120 --> 00:00:39,040 And it was the fault of the war. 7 00:00:40,200 --> 00:00:45,240 They had to pay the king's weight in gold to make peace with Montania. 8 00:00:45,400 --> 00:00:47,920 And before Christmas... 9 00:00:49,080 --> 00:00:55,200 The old court wizard Astralius had to make gold immediately. 10 00:00:56,080 --> 00:00:59,200 ... And that isn't easy. 11 00:01:08,480 --> 00:01:12,360 rune grass breaded in a snail trail 12 00:01:13,520 --> 00:01:16,800 which can be seen by moonlight where the snail lives 13 00:01:17,960 --> 00:01:23,160 then find a wart root and you can make gold 14 00:01:23,320 --> 00:01:26,160 yes, the whole bag full 15 00:01:26,320 --> 00:01:30,800 catch some grain moss shine and take a sky sign 16 00:01:31,960 --> 00:01:35,320 make a decoction in a corner of a region 17 00:01:36,480 --> 00:01:40,520 then say these words with your gaze to the north: 18 00:01:40,680 --> 00:01:45,520 umma-gumma, troll can be tipped over 19 00:01:45,720 --> 00:01:49,800 mix a little lirum-larum with an angel hair 20 00:01:50,960 --> 00:01:54,720 let it simmer as long as it goes 21 00:01:55,880 --> 00:02:00,280 if you have an aurora, you can make gold 22 00:02:00,320 --> 00:02:02,160 yes, the whole bag full 23 00:02:03,820 --> 00:02:08,000 make an excerpt of a worm-ham 24 00:02:09,160 --> 00:02:12,800 and a tuft of wool from a Nokke sheep with lamb 25 00:02:13,960 --> 00:02:17,720 then say these words with your gaze to the north: 26 00:02:18,080 --> 00:02:22,360 umma-gumma, troll can be tipped over 27 00:02:23,520 --> 00:02:27,680 if you are looking for a prescription, one will be given 28 00:02:28,840 --> 00:02:32,520 alpha and omega are the philosopher's stones 29 00:02:33,720 --> 00:02:38,840 a lot has to be smoked, a lot has to be endured if you want to make gold 30 00:02:39,000 --> 00:02:42,040 yes, the whole bag full 31 00:02:43,200 --> 00:02:47,040 the alchemist's everyday life is dangerous 32 00:02:48,200 --> 00:02:52,200 not all that glitters is the pure gold 33 00:02:53,060 --> 00:02:57,560 say only these words with your gaze to the north: 34 00:02:57,720 --> 00:03:01,040 umma-gumma, troll can be tipped over 35 00:03:02,200 --> 00:03:06,280 but the bag is empty. 36 00:03:19,520 --> 00:03:25,240 - Greetings, Master Astralius. - Far too much honour, Mr reich council. 37 00:03:25,400 --> 00:03:28,200 It's progressing to produce gold? 38 00:03:28,360 --> 00:03:35,280 It's not all gold that smells as written says. Step inside if you want, I can demonstrate? 39 00:03:35,440 --> 00:03:38,280 No thanks, I smell great from here. 40 00:03:38,440 --> 00:03:41,280 I wipe everything on the gold ... the floor. 41 00:03:46,240 --> 00:03:49,440 - What are they doing? - Don't you know? 42 00:03:49,600 --> 00:03:54,600 No, and neither do you. It looks as if they are cheating the nose, but forgot how far they are. 43 00:03:54,760 --> 00:03:56,880 'Cheating' the nose... Ugh! 44 00:03:58,040 --> 00:04:01,560 Just costum. I do it myself when I talk to people. 45 00:04:01,720 --> 00:04:07,600 - You don't do it now? - When I talk to 'people', I say. 46 00:04:27,060 --> 00:04:29,720 DONG 47 00:04:30,200 --> 00:04:32,480 DONG 48 00:04:35,040 --> 00:04:39,000 Good morning, dear brother-in-law. Hope we didn't wake you up. 49 00:04:39,160 --> 00:04:42,280 I thought the tower was about to fall over. 50 00:04:48,000 --> 00:04:54,160 - Baron Wiessenwass left, didn't he? - Yes, you can be quite calm. 51 00:04:54,320 --> 00:04:56,880 I am always quite calm. 52 00:04:58,040 --> 00:05:04,960 What I mean is, I wanted to have teased him a little. But now he has left. 53 00:05:05,120 --> 00:05:10,520 - We can find others to tease. - Don't bug Uncle Mirko, little Fimpe. 54 00:05:10,680 --> 00:05:13,680 It is not certain that Mirko is teasing crazy today. 55 00:05:13,840 --> 00:05:17,520 - It's funniest to tease the bad guys. - Yes, consider that, little Fimpe. 56 00:05:17,680 --> 00:05:21,120 If Mirko hadn't been driven from house, evil and ruckus. 57 00:05:21,280 --> 00:05:26,480 - What ruckus? - ... then he had nowhere to be thankful for. 58 00:05:26,640 --> 00:05:30,560 - We have always managed in my family. - Namely. 59 00:05:30,720 --> 00:05:33,400 Life is only sorrows and joys. 60 00:05:33,560 --> 00:05:38,400 Magnum says so, too. He's had breaskfast, but we have no quail eggs, you're so happy for. 61 00:05:38,560 --> 00:05:43,040 - I have polished your glasses. - In pot-ashes, I hope. 62 00:05:43,560 --> 00:05:46,040 Or I can't see what day in the week it is. 63 00:05:46,200 --> 00:05:49,520 - Where is my brother? - Where's Magnum? 64 00:05:49,660 --> 00:05:51,540 Over all the mountains and cane and stone. 65 00:05:51,680 --> 00:05:53,800 Father is out with the Christmas mood. 66 00:05:53,960 --> 00:05:58,480 There is goods in the window. Look, look outside. 67 00:05:58,960 --> 00:06:00,480 They are coming with the tree from the forest. 68 00:06:04,640 --> 00:06:07,720 The Christmas tree is arriving! Then it will work. 69 00:06:24,160 --> 00:06:28,680 A Christmas tree as big as a tree. I see it, it's so approximately. 70 00:06:41,520 --> 00:06:44,800 it's surely, it's true, december 71 00:06:44,960 --> 00:06:48,060 the most beautiful month in the land of the pixies 72 00:06:48,820 --> 00:06:51,760 there are people for whom the cold is bad for 73 00:06:52,220 --> 00:06:55,720 but for pixies, the ice is the pure water 74 00:06:56,880 --> 00:07:00,000 and the days fly away like a bird 75 00:07:00,160 --> 00:07:04,800 it's surely, it's soon, it's Christmas 76 00:07:30,240 --> 00:07:33,760 it's surely, it's true, december 77 00:07:33,920 --> 00:07:37,480 the busiest month for pixies in particular 78 00:07:37,640 --> 00:07:41,160 because then we flutter around and fight 79 00:07:41,320 --> 00:07:45,040 every step towards acidity and crooked toes 80 00:07:45,200 --> 00:07:49,280 we say it openly, although always in secret 81 00:07:49,440 --> 00:07:53,960 it's surely, it's soon, it's Christmas 82 00:07:55,240 --> 00:07:58,760 it's surely, it's true, december 83 00:07:59,420 --> 00:08:02,220 it's the day before the day before the day you know 84 00:08:02,380 --> 00:08:05,860 and anyone who wants to add a damper 85 00:08:06,020 --> 00:08:10,020 on our pleasure, we will notify him immediately 86 00:08:10,180 --> 00:08:14,220 let us forget that the world is false and hollow 87 00:08:14,380 --> 00:08:16,580 it's surely, it's soon, 88 00:08:16,740 --> 00:08:18,020 it's Christmas. 89 00:08:18,160 --> 00:08:20,720 A BANG... 90 00:08:39,720 --> 00:08:42,720 - Gold? - No, unfortunately. 91 00:08:42,880 --> 00:08:47,280 It's just platinum... Out with it. 92 00:08:50,360 --> 00:08:55,560 - Platinum? A waste product? - Exactly, Count Rabsenfuchs. 93 00:08:55,720 --> 00:09:00,920 But when we have platinum, then gold can't be far away. 94 00:09:01,080 --> 00:09:04,600 If only I could come up with that formula. 95 00:09:04,760 --> 00:09:08,320 Albertus... Basilius... 96 00:09:08,480 --> 00:09:14,760 Magnus... Valentinus... Thomas... 97 00:09:16,480 --> 00:09:18,760 What follows then? 98 00:09:24,080 --> 00:09:27,120 Albertus... Basilius... 99 00:09:27,280 --> 00:09:33,560 Magnus... Valentinus... Thomas... 100 00:09:35,480 --> 00:09:37,760 What follows then? 101 00:09:40,200 --> 00:09:44,200 Albertus... Basilius... Magnus... 102 00:10:04,560 --> 00:10:08,200 - Wow, wow, wow! - Good roar, lion. 103 00:10:09,360 --> 00:10:11,720 Another song. 104 00:10:14,880 --> 00:10:16,400 What do you give it to eat, if I may ask? 105 00:10:16,560 --> 00:10:19,240 - No. - No, what? 106 00:10:19,400 --> 00:10:25,160 No to 'be allowed to know'. I swore by my neck, nobody gets to see the feed. 107 00:10:26,320 --> 00:10:29,880 I am the King's mouthpour. I'm responsible for ensuring that no one is poisoned. 108 00:10:30,040 --> 00:10:32,880 You can taste it. I only swore no one can see it. 109 00:10:34,040 --> 00:10:35,900 If you close your eyes and open your mouth... 110 00:10:36,040 --> 00:10:39,200 - then I'll give you a good handful between your teeth. 111 00:10:40,360 --> 00:10:42,800 I would be a fool if I said thank you to that offer. 112 00:10:43,360 --> 00:10:46,800 It could be useful to see if the food that cure a bird - 113 00:10:46,960 --> 00:10:48,140 also can take the life of a mouthpour. Come on. 114 00:10:48,200 --> 00:10:49,760 No! 115 00:10:49,920 --> 00:10:52,920 Who says the creature is cured? 116 00:10:53,080 --> 00:10:57,800 - It looks more likely to be about to die. - It's as good as cured. 117 00:10:57,960 --> 00:11:00,880 Otherwise it couldn't lay that many egg. 118 00:11:01,040 --> 00:11:04,640 Egg? Where? 119 00:11:07,920 --> 00:11:09,960 But... 120 00:11:10,020 --> 00:11:12,920 It's a HE! 121 00:11:14,240 --> 00:11:18,400 Zzzzz... 122 00:12:08,280 --> 00:12:12,240 I think our hunter is about to throw himself into the moat. 123 00:12:12,400 --> 00:12:16,720 He may be suffering from unrequited love. 124 00:12:17,880 --> 00:12:19,720 Yes, he looks unhappy. 125 00:12:19,880 --> 00:12:23,160 - Maybe he has lost something. - Yes, the tongue. 126 00:12:23,320 --> 00:12:30,080 High princess... I haven't lost anything, contrary. I have found something. 127 00:12:32,240 --> 00:12:34,340 - Take the sewing clothes to the chamber. - What does he have in the pot? 128 00:12:34,400 --> 00:12:40,400 Off you go, Sibbe curious! The jar is full of pixies! 129 00:12:43,520 --> 00:12:45,960 Let me see. 130 00:12:46,120 --> 00:12:49,200 Quail eggs? How lovely. 131 00:12:50,360 --> 00:12:54,440 - They have been buried. - Yes, they look fresh. 132 00:12:54,600 --> 00:12:57,360 It will do the pixies good at this time of year. 133 00:12:57,600 --> 00:12:59,360 - Who? - The pixies. 134 00:12:59,520 --> 00:13:04,000 - Are the eggs for the pixies? - Yes, nothing is too good for the little ones. 135 00:13:08,280 --> 00:13:12,360 - What is so enjoyable? - Perhaps it is better you ate them, yourself. 136 00:13:12,520 --> 00:13:14,000 - Why? 137 00:13:14,520 --> 00:13:18,040 - Pixies? Do they exist? - You don't believe in pixies? 138 00:13:18,200 --> 00:13:20,600 Unfortunately, no. 139 00:13:20,760 --> 00:13:24,480 If you don't believe in them, they don't exist. 140 00:13:24,640 --> 00:13:28,560 And if they don't exist... 141 00:13:30,720 --> 00:13:34,080 So they don't eat quail eggs either, do they? 142 00:13:34,240 --> 00:13:37,000 Yes, they do. I'll show you that. 143 00:13:37,160 --> 00:13:41,000 Help! There are bites! 144 00:13:41,160 --> 00:13:46,360 - Sysmund, where do you squanter? - Yes, yes, high king. 145 00:13:47,520 --> 00:13:52,440 My wretched life is at your disposal. As long as it doesn't cost agony... 146 00:13:52,600 --> 00:13:55,840 - Quickly see who is biting. Must be a whale at least. 147 00:13:56,000 --> 00:13:59,080 - Piano, piano... Don't pull so hard it breaks. 148 00:13:59,240 --> 00:14:02,520 Or you pull the teeth out from the jaw of the beast. 149 00:14:02,680 --> 00:14:09,640 - Rush off or I'll break his arms! - Too much of an honour! 150 00:14:10,800 --> 00:14:13,680 I send out the bodyguard to neutralize the monster. 151 00:14:26,480 --> 00:14:28,880 If I may, high king. 152 00:14:29,040 --> 00:14:32,720 I know who bites the hook. 153 00:14:32,880 --> 00:14:35,640 Say, hunter. Is it a whale-fish? 154 00:14:35,800 --> 00:14:41,840 - No, a colleague of yours. - Colleague? How so? 155 00:14:42,000 --> 00:14:46,840 King Winter has clenched his ice-jaws around the fishing gear. 156 00:14:47,000 --> 00:14:50,800 Ice jaw? Jerusalem! Is the lake already iced over? 157 00:14:50,960 --> 00:14:54,360 Yes, papa, and you are sitting in front of an open window as if summer. 158 00:14:54,520 --> 00:14:56,280 Yes, yes, yes. 159 00:14:58,440 --> 00:15:00,920 Put on your lined boots. 160 00:15:01,080 --> 00:15:03,680 Aunt Fedorika does not want, you walking in those slippers. 161 00:15:03,840 --> 00:15:07,960 She wants... Nobody asks what I want. 162 00:15:08,120 --> 00:15:10,000 A BANG... 163 00:15:10,160 --> 00:15:13,440 It was Astralius. What did he figure out now? 164 00:15:29,920 --> 00:15:33,440 Gold! 165 00:15:46,560 --> 00:15:49,920 Little brother, those slippers! 166 00:15:53,600 --> 00:15:55,680 Sire... 167 00:15:57,840 --> 00:16:00,540 - Did you also hear the bang, reich council? Must have been Astralius. 168 00:16:00,600 --> 00:16:06,520 - Must hope the best, Sire. - At least he survives. 169 00:16:08,200 --> 00:16:13,400 High well-born ruler... 170 00:16:13,560 --> 00:16:19,360 High ruler, most pious queen, noble councilor... 171 00:16:19,520 --> 00:16:24,680 Enough with the drop chargers. What do you have in the jug? 172 00:16:26,840 --> 00:16:28,080 Gold, my king. 173 00:16:29,240 --> 00:16:32,240 - Are you sure? - Shouldn't I know gold? 174 00:16:32,400 --> 00:16:38,080 I've been trying for over 40 years without seeing an iota. 175 00:16:38,940 --> 00:16:41,440 I don't give a damn about that. 176 00:16:41,600 --> 00:16:44,360 It weighs almost 3 cents. 177 00:16:44,520 --> 00:16:48,160 - Where are the rest? - I only have this one. 178 00:16:49,320 --> 00:16:51,960 - But you do more? - Sure. I just need... 179 00:16:52,120 --> 00:16:57,080 And before Christmas? Or Montania will come and take it all. 180 00:16:57,240 --> 00:17:01,240 I just need to figure out one tiny issue. 181 00:17:01,400 --> 00:17:05,840 - Which one? - How it was that I did. 182 00:17:26,320 --> 00:17:30,160 Brother Mirko, come and see. 183 00:17:31,320 --> 00:17:34,040 Uh, uh. 184 00:17:35,200 --> 00:17:38,920 It's not just eggs, it's quail eggs. 185 00:17:42,480 --> 00:17:45,920 - Who is he? - Yes, isn't she lovely, from a human. 186 00:17:46,080 --> 00:17:48,920 - She is pretty. - Almost pixie-like. 187 00:17:49,080 --> 00:17:51,120 But the other. Who is he? 188 00:17:53,280 --> 00:17:56,800 Quail eggs... Have you seen? 189 00:17:56,960 --> 00:17:58,360 Yes, mother Trisse. 190 00:17:58,520 --> 00:18:02,560 It's the new hunter, who comes from far away they say. 191 00:18:02,720 --> 00:18:06,280 Quail eggs are your favourite dish, dear brother-in-law. 192 00:18:06,440 --> 00:18:09,640 The princess deserves thanks for that. 193 00:18:09,800 --> 00:18:15,080 It's obvious! He is from Montania. 194 00:18:15,240 --> 00:18:19,400 A typical Montanian. Now you have them here too. 195 00:18:19,560 --> 00:18:22,840 He looks really good. 196 00:18:24,500 --> 00:18:26,440 Tell, tell. What is happening? 197 00:18:26,600 --> 00:18:32,360 Was with the dumb pigeons. Are there any lures on the loft... 'delicious on the loft'? 198 00:18:33,800 --> 00:18:36,960 I'm going far around. Looking at traps and lures and that type. 199 00:18:37,120 --> 00:18:42,360 - Will be a few days, but I don't leave until tomorrow. - Already tomorrow? 200 00:18:43,520 --> 00:18:47,080 Who will feed my bird? Only you know what he can handle. 201 00:18:47,240 --> 00:18:49,900 I will give you as much as needed until I return... 202 00:18:53,160 --> 00:18:55,840 Meow... 203 00:18:57,800 --> 00:19:00,880 - It was just the cat. - You don't hear the little ones. 204 00:19:03,040 --> 00:19:09,520 - How small are they? - About half as big as we are. 205 00:19:09,680 --> 00:19:13,720 - And invisible? - Not if you can see them. 206 00:19:15,880 --> 00:19:17,880 I can't do that. 207 00:19:18,040 --> 00:19:22,720 I guess we can't do that where I come from. 208 00:19:27,920 --> 00:19:30,640 Valentin? Where are you from? 209 00:19:33,800 --> 00:19:35,920 From the forest, high princess. 210 00:19:39,320 --> 00:19:44,320 - The eggs are gone. - I told you the pixies love eggs. 211 00:19:45,480 --> 00:19:48,840 Isn't it more likely the cat that took them? 212 00:19:50,000 --> 00:19:53,840 Does the cat eat eggs, where you come from? 213 00:20:01,120 --> 00:20:05,640 when you are in pixie learning, you have to use your pixie bulb 214 00:20:05,720 --> 00:20:07,640 if a pixie, one wants to be. 215 00:20:07,800 --> 00:20:11,720 you have to be an animal-friend friend with mice and ants, 216 00:20:11,880 --> 00:20:14,040 first and foremost you have to be a prankster 217 00:20:14,200 --> 00:20:16,600 with real mischief mindset 218 00:20:17,360 --> 00:20:21,240 when teasing, it is important to start a little cautiously, 219 00:20:21,360 --> 00:20:23,240 so you learn to tease right 220 00:20:24,400 --> 00:20:27,720 you can start by making clocks stop 221 00:20:27,880 --> 00:20:30,080 it's easy to learn for a prankster 222 00:20:30,240 --> 00:20:32,720 with real mischief mindset 223 00:20:33,880 --> 00:20:36,840 The king's beer in the king's barrel can then be started 224 00:20:37,000 --> 00:20:39,400 so quietly to dilute 225 00:20:40,560 --> 00:20:43,080 with a cupful of Christmas snow, the beer becomes a thin cup of tea 226 00:20:43,240 --> 00:20:46,320 only a real prankster brews like that 227 00:20:46,480 --> 00:20:49,120 with real mischief mindset 228 00:20:49,280 --> 00:20:53,400 you don't need to touch to open all doors 229 00:20:53,560 --> 00:20:55,880 just take some fishing line 230 00:20:56,040 --> 00:20:59,320 with a line and a hook all coffin layers rattle 231 00:20:59,480 --> 00:21:02,760 that's just the point for a prankster 232 00:21:02,920 --> 00:21:05,400 with real mischief mindset 233 00:21:06,560 --> 00:21:09,840 all good pranksters know when the time is right 234 00:21:10,000 --> 00:21:12,440 to stop and disappear 235 00:21:12,600 --> 00:21:15,960 one must not be seen, that has yet never happened 236 00:21:16,120 --> 00:21:19,200 you have to be a completely invisible prankster 237 00:21:19,360 --> 00:21:21,960 with real mischief mindset. 238 00:21:24,360 --> 00:21:31,960 --- Subtitles by Essery. ---